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Hundreds of internally displaced radical (IDPs) staying successful alleviation camps present clashed with information forces astatine Pukhao and adjacent Dolaithabi Dam successful Imphal East territory connected Monday (November 24, 2025) arsenic they attempted to instrumentality to their autochthonal homes, officials said.
IDPs from Ekou, Dolaithabi and Yengkhuman localities, who had been staying successful alleviation camps, attempted to march towards their homes but were stopped by information forces.
The information forces fired teardrop state shells to disperse the protesters, they said.
The IDPs claimed that, arsenic the yearly Sangai festival is being held, normalcy has been established successful the State, and they should beryllium allowed to instrumentality to their homes.
A protester, S. Kumarjit Meitei, told reporters, “We are mostly farmers. Our livelihood has been wholly chopped disconnected aft we were forced to fly our homes. Now that the authorities has said that normalcy has returned. Our request is that IDPs beryllium allowed to instrumentality to their homes. How agelong bash we enactment confined successful alleviation camps. Why can’t information forces woody with the militants alternatively of forcing america to stay successful alleviation camps.”
Agitated protesters scuffled with information forces and headed towards the areas considered 1 of the astir delicate zones, prompting them to occurrence teardrop state shells to disperse them, the authoritative added.
Ekou, Dolaithabi and Yengkhuman are located astatine the foothills of Imphal East district, bordering Kuki-dominated Kangpokpi district. The areas witnessed taste unit successful 2023.
More than 260 radical person been killed and thousands rendered stateless successful the taste strife betwixt Meiteis and Kuki-Zo groups since May 2023 successful Manipur.
